Learn how OneAdvanced, a UK enterprise software provider, built a UK-sovereign AI platform by self-hosting Llama 4 Maverick and Llama Guard 4 on Amazon SageMaker AI, with a RAG pipeline on pgvector and over 50 agents built with Strands Agents SDK on Amazon ECS. Link to article: …

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Solv Labs built a governed agent-payments workflow on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, where every transaction is authorized, attested in an AWS Nitro Enclave, priced for risk, and anchored to a public blockchain before settlement. See how the pattern gives enterprises a verifiable, auditable trail for autonomous …

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Running large language model inference at scale forces a KV cache trade-off: oversized GPU instances or slow time-to-first-token. This post builds a tiered KV cache on Amazon SageMaker HyperPod that extends the cache into a shared, distributed NVMe pool with Curvine, so replicas reuse cache at near-local-disk speeds on …

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This PyCharm release is a big one for anyone building with AI. Your agents can now roll up their sleeves inside your Jupyter notebooks – working against a live kernel instead of firing off disconnected scripts. And they finally know which Python to use, so packages land in the right environment every time. We’re also …

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AI agents are supposed to save you time. Ask one to install a dependency or run your project, though, and it often does the opposite: It installs into the wrong Python, ignores the uv or virtual environment your project uses, and hands back a broken setup for you to fix yourself. PyCharm’s new Agent Environment […] …

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If you’ve handed notebook work to an AI agent, you know how it tends to go: More often than not, it corrupts your .ipynb, loses your trained model the moment the run finishes, or burns budget sitting idle through a long job while you watch. To solve this, we’re introducing a brand-new Jupyter skill. Built […] Link to …

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As part of ongoing maintenance, we are unbundling and deprecating low-usage plugins starting with PyCharm 2026.2. This includes support for Data Wrangler, Hugging Face, and Google Colab, among others. A more focused set of bundled plugins means a leaner codebase, enabling us to keep PyCharm fast and responsive and …

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When developers hear “AI in the IDE”, the first thing that often comes to mind is a chat window. IntelliJ IDEA includes an AI chat, but JetBrains AI features also appear in many other parts of the development workflow. Some of those features are easy to miss because they are built into existing IDE actions: […] Link to …

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Agent Skills have become a key building block of the Agent Harness for AI-driven agentic development. They give AI agents additional capabilities and knowledge, enabling them to complete tasks in a way that aligns with your preferences. If you are new to Agent Skills, I recommend reading AI-Assisted Java Application …

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Crockford Base32, created by Douglas Crockford, is a human-friendly encoding method designed to represent binary data clearly, minimizing character confusion. It excludes easily mistaken characters, offers case-insensitive decoding, and avoids padding. Available in Spargine's DotNetTips.Spargine.Core, it simplifies …

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OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI adoption. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/how-enterprises-put-ai-to-work

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This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2026.07.29 registry release and the 2026-07-13, Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/whats-new-in-vcpkg-jul-2026

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What parts of building and shipping on Azure still take too many steps? Maybe you want a command that starts a project with your organization’s approved architecture and infrastructure. Maybe you need to connect deployments to an internal service catalog, run security checks before provisioning, or guide developers …

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Daybreak Red and Daybreak Blue from OpenAI, specialized cyber defense models from OpenAI, are now available on Amazon Bedrock to eligible customers. Both models run with zero-operator access enforced at the chip, keeping your code and vulnerability data secure. Link to article: …

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Optimize NLog performance in .NET with AsyncWrapper, BufferingWrapper, and high-throughput logging patterns. Includes benchmarks, async configuration, and production tuning tips. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/08/11/nlog-performance-asyncwrapper-buffering-and-highthroughput-logging-in-net

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We are releasing new patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers stay up to date with the latest, most secure version of Azure DevOps Server. The most recent release, Azure DevOps Link to article: …

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Today, we are excited to announce the seventh preview release of .NET 11! This release includes improvements across libraries, the .NET Runtime, SDK, C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, Entity Framework Core, F#, and Windows Forms. Check out the linked release notes below and get started today. [cta-button …

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Welcome to our combined .NET servicing updates for August 2026. Let's get into the latest release of .NET and .NET Framework. Here's a quick overview of what's new in our servicing releases: Security improvements .NET has been refreshed with the latest update as of August 11, 2026. This update contains security and …

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If you've worked with Git submodules for any length of time, you probably have a love-hate relationship with them. They're genuinely useful for pulling a shared library, an SDK, or common build scripts into your project. But actually working with them usually means tabbing over to a terminal and trying to remember …

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Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.133 (Insiders) Read the full article Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/vscode-blog/visual-studio-code-1.133-(insiders)

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